Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40083A57.30200@attglobal.net> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:24:07 -0800 From: Doug VanLeuven User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge References: <20040114213617.GD4088@redhat.com> <20040116101533.GK1885@cygbert.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20040116101533.GK1885@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IsSubscribed: yes Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jan 15 00:38, Chris January wrote: > > >>>On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: >>> >>> >>>>>But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and >>>>>use both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address >>>>>the same needs and Cygwin covers a wider range of tools. We'll >>>>>see what happens though. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>One thing that Cygwin does lack, and SFU has, is an NFS client :-/ >>>>I know that alone will probably entice me into taking a look at >>>>SFU. >>>> >>>> >>>It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop >>>filesystem "plug-ins" which could be generalized for stuff like NFS, >>>EXTFS, etc. >>> >>>Didn't someone say they had a free month? Perfect project. :-) >>> >>> >>Isn't the SFU NFS client an installable file system, i.e. you can use it >>anywhere in Windows, not just with the SFU stuff? >> >> > >Sort of. A couple of DLLs, one or more services get started. Then >you can access the NFS paths from any Windows application. > >The problem with that NFS client is this: > >Even though it allows mapping between UNIX user names (from the evil >"other" side) and Windows user names, it doesn't map the POSIX permission >bits into NTFS like permissions. If you look into the file property box, >you'll see no "Security" tab. The file access from Windows is a bit like >access to files on FAT partitions. The permissions are statically set in >an administration MMC snap-in. > >That's the unfortunate part which, for me, makes the NFS client in SFU >unusable. > >Corinna > > > I'm not a particular fan of MS NFS client (slow), and I don't know what version you worked with, but V3.0 client certainly can set user/group/other permissions, in other words, there is a security tab. The mmc snapin functions as the equivilent of umask in UNIX. Root_squashing is available on the server side as well. Doug -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/